Sentence Examples

1. I expressed my uneasiness at his giving me so often the appellation of yahoo, an odious animal, for which I had so utter a hatred and contempt I begged he would forbear applying that word to me, and take the same order in his family and among his friends whom he suffered to see me.
2. I reached the age of twenty-nine without loving, for none of the feelings I before then experienced merit the appellation of love.
3. How can she find any appellation for them, deep enough in familiar vulgarity?
4. I said I had not, and desired he would explain to me what he meant by such an appellation applied to a mortal creature.
5. When my fears and astonishment had in some degree subsided, I had little difficulty in supposing it to be some mighty volcanic fragment ejected from that world to which I was so rapidly approaching, and, in all probability, one of that singular class of substances occasionally picked up on the earth, and termed meteoric stones for want of a better appellation.
6. To be sure there were, in Syria and other countries, sixteen cities of that appellation, besides the one to which I more particularly allude.
7. Blooder, as I mentioned before, is the correct appellation for a vampire.
8. But having here accidentally mentioned a minister of state, he commanded me some time after to inform him what species of yahoo I particularly meant by that appellation.